Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, known as the “godfather” of biodiversity, argues that the world nears an environmental tipping point—launching us into an age in which humans will likely become extinct. Vassar…
Labor Economist Betsey Stevenson came to Vassar on Friday, April 21 to give the Economics Department’s annual Crego Lecture. Titled “Our Changing Lives: Work, Family, and Policy in a time…
Annual Budgeting, Special Purpose Fund Freeze, Last Meeting of the 2016-17 Senate Annual Budgeting is underway for the 2017- 18 year. This year’s VSA Senate will vote on the 2017-18…
Since publishing an article titled “Politicization of VSA should be questioned in election,” an admittedly controversial subject, I have received a great deal of pushback from people on campus. I…
Unexpectedly, the world is once again talking about Chechnya, a republic within the Russian Federation. During the Russo-Chechen wars of the 1990s and 2000s, televisions buzzed with footage of the…
On May 3, an installation by interdisciplinary artist Ann Burke Daly and Spanish musician, writer and translator Álvaro Marcos, “SPECERE LAB,” will be on view in the Aula. Their project…
This past weekend, Future Waitstaff of America (FWA) presented “Into the Woods,” the fantastical musical of recent cinematic fame. This was a huge undertaking, with a cast, crew and pit…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a band with an image as cultivated as the Gorillaz. Like literally: the band is animated. Their composition is 90 percent image, 10 percent music.…
Everyone, stop what you are doing and watch “Big Little Lies.” The seven-episode HBO show is about the extravagant but complicated lives of upper-class mothers in the affluent beach town…
Sponsored by the Math Department, President of Math for America (MfA) John Ewing gave a lecture this past Thursday, contemplating whether the United States is undergoing an education crisis, whether…
